John Updike - Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf

Pros: Filled with memorable stories and essays, Golf Dreams is ideal off-season reading.

Cons: "Farrell's Caddy" transcends sport, but other pieces might be too jargon filled for non-golfing readers.

The Bottom Line: Thirty short pieces of fiction and non-fiction all with John Updike's usual brilliance. But this might be too much golf for the less-than-devoted Updike fan or the non-golfing reader.

Review: John Updike, among the most celebrated of American authors, has used golf as a theme throughout his career and, as this collection fully shows, has used it well. Golf Dreams includes roughly four decades of short stories, essays, and even a poem ...